The time has come. Dear people who use Twitter as their instant messenger of choice, your direct messages are no longer limited to 140 characters. Twitter announced today that it has removed the restriction and will begin rolling out the change to both Android and iOS.

This change comes a couple months after Twitter first spread the word. Back in June it said that the limit would rise from 140 characters to 10,000. If that isn't enough characters, you're mistakenly operating under the assumption that Twitter is the best platform for typing up your memoir.

Tweets will continue to have a 140 character limit, as will direct messages sent via SMS. The change is rolling out starting today, but it will take a few weeks to take effect worldwide.

Comments

IMO it's a bit ridiculous that tweets still have a 140-character limit, but can include many MBs (and pixels) worth of images and autoplaying ([email protected]#$) videos.

Quint’s Sharking & Seashells

Of course people still use Twitter. For many it is the first choice to link to
friends and family instead of using Facebook. It may not be

Quint’s Sharking & Seashells

for everyone, but many find it adequate. I personally don’t use it that much. Acutally, I don’t do much of any social media. I think the

Quint’s Sharking & Seashells

140 character limit is kind of silly, but I do understand why they decided to keep it. Otherwise you would have very long posts. It was

Quint’s Sharking & Seashells

meant to be for short spurts of information. I hope this helps you understand the importance of Twitter. Good day sir.

Kristoffer Stalsberg

I see what you did there

Kristoffer Stalsberg

Yeah, it should be a lot higher IMO, but I still want it to be about short messages, so maybe a 400-500 limit would be good? 140 characters for DMs was especially ridiculous. And it seems to still be there for me right now.

Leif Sikorski

I liked the 256 character limit of app.net. This way you could at least write 1-2 sentences in almost every language.

Kristoffer Stalsberg

It would certainly be better than 140 characters, but I feel like I often see tweets split into three parts, so I'm thinking it should probably be at least three times what it is today. (=420)

So today Twitter becomes just like every other messenging/Email application that ever existed before it. That should make TWTR's stock price sky-rocket! And no, I am not being sarchastic. Life on Earth has really become that ridiculous.